This is a geeky post… but I need to do this every once in a while. I’m becoming less geek over the last few years but I still enjoy geeky stuff every now and then. Take the new Ubuntu it is wonderful! I upgraded last night and it only interacted with me a few times. The upgrade was smooth and flawless on my HP tx2110us tablet laptop. Once it booted into Ubuntu for the first time it was snazzy! The response time when you click on an app was much faster than yesterday! I didn’t time it but still blew me away with how fast it was.

Up next on my blog post is a very family friendly program called OpenDNS. It is a life saver for filtering your network traffic. It is easy to set up, it has detailed instructions on configuring your router/pc and works like a champ! Please, if you have a family you need a filter for the internet!

Well this article isn’t for my reader population, it is for Sysadmin’s who run up against the following error, and what to do about it.

I was doing portupgrade on Thursday and then I was going to change my MTA from sendmail to postfix, until I restarted apache and got this error, PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library. The error in my httpd-error.lo file was the following (tail -40 /var/log/httpd-error.log):

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘./usr/local/lib/php/20050922/pcre.so’ – ./usr/local/lib/php/20050922/pcre.so: Undefined symbol “fifth_arg_force_ref” in Unknown on line 0

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